"still awaiting the ICP license to be issued, so I can actually open port 80 on a VM." It is my understanding that things are much, much easier if you are not

"still awaiting the ICP license to be issued, so I can actually open port 80 on a VM." It is my understanding that things are much, much easier if you are not "publishing". That is, if you don't have a website or open port 80 (for instance) you can quickly and easily co-locate devices inside China - without any kind of license. Although we have not yet deployed rsync.net in mainland china (we have a location in Hong Kong) all of our contacts and partners were happy to rent us rackspace for non-publishing infrastructure - no licenses needed.